Couple grows organic foods at two farms

Last year, the Pennsylvania legislature amended its Small Business First Fund to open the low-cost loan program to production farms, an understandable move in a state where agriculture is a $45 billion industry.

However, the first farm to receive a loan is far from a conventional agribusiness. Lady Moon Farms, Inc., whose headquarters is a few miles west of Chambersburg, wholesales over 25 different vegetables-from aruga to winter squash-all of which are grown organically, on 300 acres in Pennsylvania and 580 acres in Florida.

Owned and operated by Tom and Christine Beddard, Lady Moon Farms is the largest commercial organic farm operation in the east, employing about 50 …

Couple grows organic foods at two farms

Last year, the Pennsylvania legislature amended its Small Business First Fund to open the low-cost loan program to production farms, an understandable move in a state where agriculture is a $45 billion industry.

However, the first farm to receive a loan is far from a conventional agribusiness. Lady Moon Farms, Inc., whose headquarters is a few miles west of Chambersburg, wholesales over 25 different vegetables-from aruga to winter squash-all of which are grown organically, on 300 acres in Pennsylvania and 580 acres in Florida.

Owned and operated by Tom and Christine Beddard, Lady Moon Farms is the largest commercial organic farm operation in the east, employing about 50 …